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quiet luxury

quiet luxury noun: a form of inconspicuous or subdued luxury, often by lesser-known brands.

Noun

quiet luxury (countable and uncountable, plural quiet luxuries)

  1. A form of inconspicuous or subdued luxury, often by lesser-known brands.
    • Perhaps I would mind this “quiet luxury” less if the clothes were fabulous. But, instead, they’re bloodless, grandly bland, dreary.2023 April 30, Eva Wiseman, “Why do we buy into ‘stealth wealth’ and the class who wear it?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
    • “Quiet luxury” is a kabuki performance of moneyed ease and indifference.2023 October 7, Robert Armstrong, Lauren Indvik, “How to look rich”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4

Forms of quiet luxury

pluralquiet luxuries

Questions about quiet luxury

What does quiet luxury mean?
Quiet luxury means a form of inconspicuous or subdued luxury, often by lesser-known brands.
What part of speech is quiet luxury?
Quiet luxury is a noun.
What is the plural of quiet luxury?
The plural of quiet luxury is quiet luxuries.

Words near quiet luxury in the dictionary

  1. quiet fox gesture
  2. quiet hands
  3. quiet hiring
  4. quiet horror
  5. quiet luxuries
  6. quiet luxury
  7. quiet move
  8. quiet moves
  9. quiet party
  10. quiet promotion
  11. quiet quit

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